Blood for the Blood Horde

Standard Aggro BR (Rakdos) Competitive Jank Theme/Gimmick Tokens

michael921

Creature (22)

• 4x Bomat Courier
• 3x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 4x Gifted Aetherborn
• 3x Hanweir Garrison  ^Meld
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 3x Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
• 4x Scrapheap Scrounger

Land (22)

• 4x Foreboding Ruins
• 3x Hanweir Battlements  ^{Flip  Meld}
• 3x Mountain
• 4x Smoldering Marsh
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Artifact (6)

• 3x Aethersphere Harvester
• 3x Key to the City

Instant (10)

• 3x Fatal Push
• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 3x Unlicensed Disintegration

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 2x Distended Mindbender
• 1x Immobilizer Eldrazi
• 2x Inventor's Apprentice
• 1x Pia Nalaar

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Instant (3)

• 3x Shock

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Lost Legacy
• 2x Resourceful Return

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Bloodhall Priest
• 1x Insolent Neonate

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Skulls for the skull throne!

This is a rakdos aggro deck built around Drana, Liberator of Malakir + Hanweir Garrison , with a bit of an artifact subtheme. While Drana may fit better into a GB aggro deck like this one, I much prefer playing strange decks that people don't know how to play against.

Some Card Choices Show

• Drana, Liberator of Malakir is a card that I fell in love with as soon as I read her story, and have been determined to make her work ever since. I would not have gotten into Standard without her.

• Hanweir Garrison in the early game provides a large number of bodies for Drana to distribute her counters onto, and also provides a mana sink in the late game in case I flood out.

• Westvale Abbey   provides a similar mana sink role, but is only a one of due to colour restrictions.

• Gifted Aetherborn is essentially Vampire Nighthawk, and looks extremely broken, especially if it gets larger over time with +1/+1 counters.

• Kari Zev, Skyship Raider is in my opinion the most borderline card in the deck, but I needed another agressive two drop, and she can hit for 3 damage by herself, and is resiliant to a large amount of removal in standard. So she made the cut for now.

The biggest questions for this deck right now are:

• Can it be competetive

• Is a madness or artifact subtheme going to be more effective for the deck overall?

Any advice, commentary, or playtest results on the deck are much appreciated!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 2 Mythic Rares 32 - 5 Rares 10 - 3 Uncommons 4 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.18
Tokens	Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Energy Reserve, Human 1/1 R, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Ragavan, Thopter 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B